[JWBear]

I sincerely hope that those of you who have no problem with the state cutting ADAP, and condemning many thousands to their deaths, have never had to watch someone they love die for no reason other than the inability to afford medical care. I hope you have never fallen in love with someone only to watch them whither and die as you watch helplessly. I hope this because it's easier to think you support these cuts out of ignorance of the human suffering that will result, rather than out of knowing but uncaring indifference.

I would ask you to find the parents of a child dying of AIDS and tell them, to their face, that their child needs to die because "We have to cut something". Tell the single mother that she will never be able to see her child grow up because it's not the government's place to pay for her medical care. Look into the eyes of a man who's only hope for life is the medications he can only have because of ADAP. Watch the fear and despair in his eyes as he realizes he has just been condemned to die a long and unpleasant death while the Governor and his cronies smoke their cigars and pat themselves on the back for "winning" one against the "other side".

There is something terribly wrong with a society where the lives of those less fortunate can be sacrificed on the altar of Less Government.

Go ahead and continue sitting in your comfortable middle class houses, in your comfortable middle class neighborhoods, living your comfortable middle class lives where you never have to decide between paying rent or buying medications - because you can't afford both (or either). Go right ahead and keep discussing these cuts with all the dispassion of just another political chess game. As for me... I'm done here.